At Fosdem I listened to the infamous and awesome Keith Packard talking about what’s going on in X land and it all seemed really optimistic. Among the things I heard there was X client reconnecting and multi-pointer X and that got me thinking….

What if…

• X clients can simply change connection (connect to a different host)
• X clients can connect to some sort of multiplexer that sends data to two or more X servers and accepts input from either one or more  of them
• Combine the previous one with multi-pointer-X

That sounds  like a  fricken excellent collaboration platform! Everyone behind his own machine, but sharing app windows or maybe even complete desktops.

Let’s hope this dream comes true one day, and that they also “fix” the X protocol to be less bandwidth wasting (see NX) then we can really do insanely cool things with it.